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 following few lines from the “Skanda Purāna" :“Nothing in the Vedas is superior to the Gayatri. No invocation is equal to the Gayatri, as no city is equal to Kasi (Benares). The Gayatri is the mother of the Vedas, and of Brāhmans. By repeating it a man is saved. By the power of the Gayatri the Kshetriya

(Warrior caste) Vishvamitra became a Brāhmarsi (Brāhman Saint), and even obtained such power as to be able to create a new world. What is there indèed that cannot be effected by the Gayatri ? For the Gayatri is Vishnu, Brahmā, and Siva, and the three Vedas." With promise of such blessings, it